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And the little one in Cherry Blossoms is an idol, which also proves that idols can do terrific kissing scenes. Which will actually help the idol's career because a good kissing scene makes a BL more popular and that means more fans.

Agree. I was all there for this show during the first 3-4 episodes. Then it lost me.

LOL, the rating dropped from a 7.7 to a 7.0 in two days. I can't say I disagree. It started strong and I liked it. But then it grew progressively worse with amateur editing, and imploded at ep 6, with that fake kiss.

I don't get why an idol breaking into acting would do a BL only to do a fake kiss, which will lower him in the eyes of fans. Those idols who commit to a true kiss (eg, Semantic Error, Cherry Blossoms After Winter, Kissable Lips, My Beautiful Man, Amieros Paradox, etc), all got tons of praise for committing to their roles. Thus, it helped their careers. But how did this role help the idol's acting career? Answer: it did not. To the contrary, all I'm reading is negative things online about his homophobic kissing scene. All considered, I don't get why agents bother putting guys like this in BL's in the 1st place .

I initially liked it based on the sexual tension between the boys, and was even willing to forgive the bad editing. Alas, the sexual charge evaporated once they decided to fake kiss and supposedly "date." In fact, dating for them simply meant acting the exact same way as they did when they were ordinary pals in high school (eg, they played basketball, ate meals together, hung out at the park). So the show became a disappointment.

Well that was fast, lol.

I don't see it on kisskh.co. Are you sure?

I found ep 1, but where are you guys seeing ep 2?

The rating went up! It's only one point more from a 7.6 last week to a 7.7 this week, but fine

Is this subbed in English anywhere?

Actually, he did not write this. The screenwriter was Kaeko Hayafune.

Nice movie which addresses the themes of how one survives without modern amenities such as electricity, how social groups behave when they feel threatened (eg, hoarding food, price gauging, stealing, etc), and, finally, how a family learns to bond in the face of adversity. The themes were not only conveyed well, but the director also kept the pace moving along quickly, and every member of the cast did a fine job. All in all, it's a good movie about both society and family.

No, it was directed at me. I had been rude, but then deleted my comment because I felt badly. So it's confusing because you can't see the original comment she's talking about.

Oh, and can we talk about that scene of the hitmen at the salaryman's house? You know, when Beat Takeshi as a hitman commands his young partner to strip and have sex with him in front of the corpse of the salaryman's daughter? Christ. Only the Japanese could do such a scene as black comedy and make it work.

My heart broke for Jimmy and his Thai girlfriend. They were so sweet and innocent together. Since they were the first to go, I thought that maybe they'd be the only ones to go. Boy, was I wrong. And god, how I wanted Bandai and Mitsuya to make it to the countryside and start a new life together. But Bandai got it. So ok, he was gone. But Mitsuya was still alive, and we saw Mitsuya seemingly so safe on that bus while bringing Bandai's ashes and money to Bandai's mother's home in the country, just as Bandai had asked him to with his last dying words. I thought, ok, Mitsuya will at least live. Wrong again.

Since I knew there was a Gonin 2 even before I started watching this, I had assumed that Bandai and Mitsuya would live to star in the sequel (I really wanted to see them as boyfriends in another movie). Alas, I was woefully wrong about all the characters. Because the entire freaking cast was dead by the end.

Yep, and I not only often see you, but I see you on the same pages as a friend of mine here who used to be named FrothyMix but is now named etoks21. It seems we 3 like the same sort of movies.

I just watched it using the link you provided below (thank you!), and I agree.

BTW, I see you often on these pages -- both for movies like this, and for BL's. I always enjoy your opinions so it's nice to see you here.

Absolutely brilliant crime caper that has you riveted by its action, characters and stylish camera work every second of screen time. I can see why it was a hit in Japan back in 1995, and is now regarded as a classic there, and a cult classic in the West.

I must also add that I loved how it was made nearly 30 years ago, and yet features not one, but two gay couples. And then there's the fact that being gay is not in the least the focus of the film. The focus is 100% the crime caper. Their being gay is merely incidental, and that’s what makes it so cool. Because it suggests that it’s not a big deal to be gay. Imagine such a message 30 years ago --and in Japan, no less!

I gave it a solid 10/10.

It also took me a moment to get that the salaryman killed his own family . But then it all made sense. After all, he was portrayed as unhinged from the very 1st scene of the movie when he attacked Bandai at the batting park. Then he was swinging a baseball bat around at people at the nightclub. Then he even killed someone during the heist, which was not in the plan. I mean, this guy was out of control, and all the other members of the gang knew it.

My theory as to why killed his family is that he had a fight with his wife because he got fired. We'd already seen that he's a violent guy, so it's easy to imagine him losing his temper at something she said about him getting fired. He probably just exploded and bashed her head with a blunt object, and accidentally killed her. Once he killed her, he knew he'd go to jail for life, and his kids' lives would be destroyed, so he chose to kill them too. This would mean that the family had already been dead during that week or so that he'd been running around with the gang. This would account for the bodies being a state of decomposition when the hitmen showed up.

You are correct, because that was rather nasty of me. Thus, I just deleted the comment. I am sorry to have been rude.

It started off well enough, and since the actors were all such pros I was invested in the characters. Alas, midway it descended into a wannabe Tarantino film replete with an R&B song blasting while two sexy, young hipsters shoot up a room full of dozens of people. But in a Tarantino movie the violence is aesthetically stylish. In this movie, however, it came off as just plain silly.

Some of the silliness involved a petite 90 pound girl who was bashed in the head with a hammer 6 times but did not die; and later in the movie was shot in the chest 3 times, but still did not die. I began to think of her as "The Immortal Femme Fetal." And that's just one of the film's sillier elements. Trust me, there are bucket loads more.

But of all the silliness, I'd have to say that worst involved the director's attempt to copy certain plotlines from "Reservoir Dogs" and certain scenes from "Pulp Fiction." The imitation was so lame that I began to feel embarrassed for this director. Really, by the end of this movie I was just plain cringing.

BTW, I am curious about that comment that I said you deleted. It's utterly bizarre that I cannot see it. Can you see it? Or did it disappear for you too? I am wondering if I cannot see it because you made the reply on a sub-thread of somebody who subsequently blocked me.